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Parrot (formerly Parrot Security OS) is a Debian-based, security-oriented distribution featuring a collection of utilities designed for penetration testing, computer forensics, reverse engineering, hacking, privacy, anonymity and cryptography. The product, developed by Frozenbox, comes with MATE as the default desktop environment.



Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 45 (224), 6 months: 51 (189), 3 months: 43 (212), 4 weeks: 29 (331), 1 week: 36 (317)

Average visitor rating: 8.31/10 from 39 review(s).


Parrot Summary
Distribution Parrot (formerly Parrot Security OS)
Home Page https://parrotsec.org/
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User Forums https://community.parrotsec.org/
Alternative User Forums https://parrotsec.org/docs/community.html
Documentation https://parrotsec.org/docs
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Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2024-01-24: Distribution Release: Parrot 6.0
 • 2023-02-15: Distribution Release: Parrot 5.2
 • 2022-03-27: Distribution Release: Parrot 5.0
 • 2021-03-29: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.11
 • 2020-08-17: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.10
 • 2020-04-30: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.9
 • 2020-03-23: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.8
 • 2019-09-20: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.7
 • 2019-04-27: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.6
 • 2019-01-22: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.5
 • 2018-11-04: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.3
 • 2018-09-11: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.2.2
 • More Parrot releases...

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Feature 6.0 5.3 4.11.1
Release Date 2024-01-24 2023-05-03 2021-04-14
End Of Life      
Price (US$) Free Free Free
Image Size (MB) 2400-4900 2400-4900 1600-4000
Free Download ISO ISO ISO
Installation      
Default Desktop MATE MATE KDE Plasma, MATE
Package Management DEB DEB DEB
Release Model Fixed Fixed Fixed
Office Suite LibreOffice LibreOffice LibreOffice
Processor Architecture x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
Init Software systemd systemd systemd
Journaled File Systems ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4
Multilingual en en en
Asian Language Support      
Full Package List 6.0 5.3 4.11.1
abiword (3.0.5) -- -- --
alsa-lib (1.2.11) 1.2.8 1.2.4 1.2.4
amdgpu (23.0.0) -- 19.1.0 19.1.0
bash (5.2.21) 5.2 5.1 5.1
bind (9.18.21) -- -- --
chromium (121.0.6167.139) 120.0.6099.224 -- --
cups (2.4.7) 2.4.2 2.3.3 2.3.3
dhcp (4.4.3-P1) 4.4.3 4.4.1 4.4.1
e2fsprogs (1.47.0) 1.47.0 1.46.6 1.46.2
firefox (122.0) 115.6.0 102.10.0 87.0
freetype (2.13.2) 2.12.1 2.10.4 2.10.4
gcc (13.2.0) 12.2.0 10.2.1 10.2.1
gimp (2.10.36) 2.10.34 2.10.22 2.10.22
glibc (2.39) 2.36 2.31 2.31
gnome-shell (45.3) -- -- --
gnucash (5.5) -- -- --
gnumeric (1.12.56) -- -- --
grub (2.12) 2.06 2.06 --
gtk (4.12.5) 4.8.3 3.24.24 3.24.24
httpd (2.4.58) 2.4.57 2.4.56 2.4.46
inkscape (1.3.1) -- -- --
k3b (23.08.4) -- -- --
kmod (31) 30 28 28
krita (5.2.2) -- -- --
LibreOffice (24.2.0) 24.2.0 7.4.5 7.0.4
linux (6.7.3) 6.5.13 6.1.15 5.10.28
lxpanel (0.10.1) -- -- --
mariadb (11.1.3) -- -- --
mate-desktop (1.26.2) 1.26.0 1.24.1 1.24.1
mesa (24.0.0) 22.3.6 20.3.5 20.3.4
mysql (8.3.0) -- -- --
nautilus (45.2.1) -- -- --
NVIDIA (545.29.06) -- -- --
openbox (3.6.1) -- -- --
openjdk (21.0.2) 17.0.9u1 17.0.6u1 11.0.11
openssh (9.6p1) 9.2p1 8.4p1 8.4p1
openssl (3.2.1) 3.0.11d 1.1.1n 1.1.1k
perl (5.38.2) 5.36.0 5.32.1 5.32.1
php (8.3.2) -- 7.4.33 7.4.15
plasma-desktop (5.27.10) -- -- 5.20.5
postfix (3.8.5) -- -- --
postgresql (16.1) 15.5 13.10 13.2
Python (3.12.1) 3.11.2 3.9.2 3.9.2
qt (6.6.1) 6.4.2 5.15.2 5.15.2
samba (4.19.4) 4.19.4 4.17.7 4.13.5
systemd (255.3) 254.5 252.5 247.3
thunderbird (115.7.0) -- -- --
vim (9.1) 9.0 8.2 8.2
vlc (3.0.20) 3.0.20 3.0.18 3.0.12
wayland (1.22.0) -- -- --
xfdesktop (4.18.1) -- -- --
xorg-server (21.1.11) 21.1.7 1.20.11 1.20.10


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Version: 5.3
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-12-30
Votes: 0


What used to be a pretty stable distro has been ruined by the last update, which breaks the system and makes it unusable. I wonder why the maintainers have left this issue going on for at least a couple of months. I could live with the occasional shortcomings like the wifi glitches, but this is not an experience that can leave you using Parrot with trust in its stability. The botched update takes with it the graphical environment AND the ethernet connection so you are left with two options, reinstall Parrot and hope it won't happen again, or look for another distro with hopefully less maintenance woes.


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Version: 5.3
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-12-28
Votes: 0


Perrot causes a big problem when trying to get the new version.
Shows many warnings in update and cannot reinstall the new version of Perrot.
But Perrot is a good control system when it works and you feel safe being online. I can see that the security has been increased, therefore there will probably also be more problems that beginners cannot cope with.
Taḱ for a good operating system while it lasted.
A control system that has it all and more would be preferable and Perrot has that. But you don't have to use the various hacker systems to get online.


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Version: 5.3
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-12-04
Votes: 10


The creators of Parrot describe it as designed with security and privacy in mind which I like. It comes with several features related to this including a modified Firefox browser and Tor out of the box. I would describe it as user-friendly and it´s very nice-looking, especially the MATE version. I have had some problems installing and running certain packages. Another minus in my mind is that it uses Systemd which does not seem to fit the ambition of high security. Despite this I will still give it an eight out of ten.


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